Pupisoma dioscoricola explained

Pupisoma dioscoricola is a species of gastropods belonging to the family Valloniidae.^[1]

Subspecies:

• Pupisoma dioscoricola dioscoricola (C. B. Adams, 1845)
• Pupisoma dioscoricola insigne Pilsbry, 1920

Distribution

The species has almost cosmopolitan distribution. This species occurs in the United States of America (Florida and Texas) to south Brazil and north Argentina. Some of this distribution could be anthropogenic (Hausdsdorf 2007). It is also found in Micronesia, but one broken specimen was found in Afghanistan in 1979.^[2]

Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

• Schalie, H. van der. (1948). The land and fresh-water mollusks of Puerto Rico. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Miscellaneous Publications. no. 70: 1–134. (Ann Arbor).
• Holyoak, D. T.; Holyoak, G. A.; Lima, R. F. D.; Panisi, M.; Sinclair, F. (2020). A checklist of the land Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, with new records and descriptions of new taxa. Iberus: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología, (Iberus).38(2): 219–319.
• Fischer-Piette, E., C. P. Blanc, F. Blanc, & F. Salvat (1994). Gastéropodes terrestres pulmonés. Faune de Madagascar, 83: 1–552.

External links

• Adams, C. B. (1845). Specierum novarum conchyliorum, in Jamaica repertorum, synopsis. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 1-17.
• Morelet, A. (1851). Testacea novissima insulae Cubanae et Americae Centralis, Pars II. Paris: Baillière. 30 pp.
• Guppy, R. J. L. (1868). Further additions to the catalogue of the land and freshwater Molluska of Trinidad. Proceedings of the Scientific Association of Trinidad. 1(5):237-245
• Benson, W. H. (1850). Characters of new species of Helix from India, Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope; also of a new Mauritian Tornatellina, with remarks on the habits of a Cape Succinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (2) 6: 251–256
• Mollendorff, O. F. von. (1888). Von den Philippinen. V. Nachrichtsblatt der deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 20 (7/8): 97 - 109
• Miquel, S. E.; Herrera, H. W. (2014). Catalogue of terrestrial gastropods from Galápagos (except Bulimulidae and Succineidae) with description of a new species of Ambrosiella Odhner (Achatinellidae) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 143(2): 107-133
• Espinosa, J. A. & Robinson, D. G. (2021). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Hispaniola Island. Novitates Caribaea. 17: 71–146
• Hausdorf, B. (2007). Revision of the American Pupisoma species (Gastropoda: Pupilloidea). Journal of Natural History. 41(21-24): 1481-1511.

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pupisoma dioscoricola (C. B. Adams, 1845). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1063783 on 2022-03-07
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